Chapotraphouse

by Lišo

By Slammer

Around the fire, we try to keep warm in the harsh cold. Our family actually does not have our own tent; we live with another family in their tent and only sleep there, while the rest of the day we spend outside.

Every moment in the cold and rain reflects the hardship we are going through, and we hope to find a small shelter for our family.

Any help or donation would be a true treasure for us, enabling us to buy a tent to protect us from the cold and rain. From the heart, thank you to everyone who extends a helping hand🙏🏽🙏🏽💔

https://www.gofundme.com/f/surviving-an-onslaught/cl/s?utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link&lang=en_GB

Alhamdulillah, Allah blessed me with a baby, still at the beginning. Please pray for a safe journey. ❤️ Grateful to all my friends for your support. For anyone who wants to help my family, the link is here. In Gaza. https://gofund.me/1222af19

The article is dated: October 14, 2025. The photo is not from the article. I found it in the following Bluesky post from today. As far as I know - the garbage MSM haven't managed to put out a photo.

I’ve heard from immigration attorneys that clients say ICE guards lay out the WRAP device (essentially a full-body straitjacket) on the tarmac as a threat — “do what we say or you’re getting the WRAP on the whole flight.”

And here’s proof, from Seattle livestream today via @lalabote.bsky.social.

https://bsky.app/profile/gbrockell.bsky.social/post/3m7qeqmr2oc2a

This is how our tent looks in Gaza. Everything got wet. Everything was flooded with water. We became homeless once again.

Please, help me buy a new tent to replace the one that was torn apart by the wind and rain. Help my family buy blankets, as we suffer every day from the severe cold.

The bombing never stops. The sound of homes being destroyed is still ongoing. Gunfire continues, but media attention has faded.

We live with fear, cold, and exhaustion every single day. Please, any small amount can make a difference and help us survive. Your support can give us shelter, warmth, and hope again. https://gofund.me/00439328

The answer might surprise you.

As you can see in the pictures, we are going through extremely difficult days due to heavy rain. We are struggling, freezing, and getting soaked, and the clothes we have are not enough for my family and me. I truly need warm winter clothing for all of us. Any support, no matter how small, would make a huge difference in our lives. Please, do not leave us alone 🙏🏽💔

https://www.gofundme.com/f/surviving-an-onslaught/cl/s?utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link&lang=en_GB

There was a little aha moment when reading Kali Akuno et al, specifically this part:

Marx demonstrated that as capitalist production develops and advances, competition and the need to secure greater productivity from workers drives the adoption of more productive, labor-saving technology and techniques that replace workers with machines. When labor-saving techniques are introduced, more of each dollar of capital expended in production is invested in machinery and other tools of production, while less is used to hire workers. But the increase in productivity does not cause new value to be created. According to Marx it is workers’ living labor that adds all value to commodities (whether goods or services), and the exchange value of a commodity in the marketplace is determined by the socially necessary (average) labor time required to produce it. Every average hour of labor required to produce a specific commodity yields the same amount of value, independent of any variations in productivity from technological advances.

Since technological innovation decreases the socially necessary (average) labor time required, it decreases the value of the commodity. The same amount of value is spread out among more items, so the increase in productivity causes the values of individual items to decline. As things can be produced more cheaply, and because they can be produced more cheaply, their prices tend to fall. Due to competition, companies must lower their prices when production costs decline. If they don’t, they risk a significant loss of market share or even bankruptcy when competitors cut their prices in response to reduced production costs. As a result, the amount of surplus value (profit) created per dollar of capital invested, the rate of profit, necessarily falls as well. The reality is that productivity increases under capitalism produce a tendency for the general rate of profit to fall.

Since the 1960s and more intensely since the 1990’s, we have witnessed capital’s steady incorporation of automation, computerization, and digitization into the commodities production process. The mass introduction of containerization, computer numeric control (CNC) production, and digitization have displaced millions of workers from the global labor market. And with the introduction of the internet and cell phone technology, etc., there are hardly any people left on Earth who aren’t being directly impacted by this rapid technological change

But capital’s ability to reproduce itself and expand, depends on the accumulation of surplus value, a portion of which must be reinvested in means of production and labor. In more stable periods of capital accumulation, the crisis of realizing profits which is endemic to capitalism is moderated. But the general tendency of decline in the rate of profit, or accumulation of surplus value, forces efforts to bridge the gap between needed and actual rate of profit through extreme measures. Some of the extreme measures capital employs to reproduce itself include the deployment of vicious social control strategies like neoliberalism, which call for austerity and the privatization of social goods, or fascism which calls for political terror. Both of these strategies are designed to discipline labor and make it more compliant, drive down wages, and enable the plunder of natural resources more intensely and efficiently in order to restore profitability.

and even more specifically, the part where he wrote "Since technological innovation decreases the socially necessary (average) labor time required, it decreases the value of the commodity. The same amount of value is spread out among more items, so the increase in productivity causes the values of individual items to decline."

Amazing! It feels good when it a concept clicks.

The part I was missing was the direct and non-negotiable link between labor and value, which I suppose is pretty important concept in Marxism.

Tweto

It's going to take another hour to get the porridge just right for them.

"If I have an almond milkshake, and you have an almond milk shake, and I have a straw that goes all the way over to your almond milkshake, I DRINK YOUR ALMOND MILKSHAKE! slurrrrp I DRINK IT UP!"

I edited everything and sorted it so you can take it in far faster.

According to The POLITICO Poll of Americans conducted last month by Public First..

• 23% have skipped a prescription dose because of costs within the last two years

• 25% think college is worth the money, regardless of party,

• 27% have skipped a medical check-up because of costs within the last two years

• 37% could not afford to attend a professional sports event with their family or friends

• 46% could not pay for a vacation that involves air travel

• nearly 50% think groceries are difficult to afford

• nearly 50% think healthcare is difficult to afford

• nearly 50% think housing is difficult to afford

• nearly 50% think transportation is difficult to afford

• nearly 50% think utility bills are difficult to afford

• 50% say they find it difficult to pay for food

• 50+% who graduated from college supported the idea that higher education is either too expensive or not sufficiently useful.

• 62% said college isn’t worth it because it either costs too much or doesn’t provide enough benefits — a belief supported most by 18- to 24-year-olds and those aged 65 and up.

There's stuff about the GOP and MAGA but I only scanned it and it seems they're fucking crazy so I didn't quote it.

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/12724

Muanis Sinanović

In 1882, Karl Marx traveled outside Europe for the first time and set foot in one of the colonized lands with which he had previously engaged only in theory. He landed on the coast of Algeria and soon after wrote to his daughter Eleanor, “For Mussulmans, there is no such thing as subordination. Inequality is an abomination to ‘a true Mussulman’ (a Muslim), but these sentiments ‘will go to rack and ruin without a revolutionary movement.”

Nearly a century and a half later, his prediction appears grimly accurate. Much of the Islamic world remains marked by profound inequality, while it stands by, restrained and fragmented, as the genocide unfolded in Gaza. Further east, in Saudi Arabia, the Hajj pilgrimage proceeds as a commercialized touristic version of a sacred rite, where even the expression of solidarity with Palestinians is forbidden.

Despite noble sentiments, expressed in the everyday conduct of hundreds of millions through their ethics, charity, and longing for justice, the masses remain largely powerless – and repressed – in the months that have followed. Injustice and tyranny continue to appear omnipresent. Yet many Islamic intellectuals continue to reject the thought of the theorist who so precisely grasped the condition of Muslims and anticipated the trajectory of their political fate.

The Muslim world is more divided than ever. Nevertheless, the idea of the ummah endures, testifying to the depth of Islamic spirituality and to the far-reaching, world-historical significance of the revelation received by the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ.

Yet the ummah is increasingly losing touch with concrete reality, struggling to translate lofty spiritual spheres into practical life. The idea of the ummah alone cannot feed the hungry masses, provide security from imperialist barbarism, or satisfy the need for justice, solidarity, and order. The Islamic world, therefore, risks losing its living connection to its own religion – a process that has already primarily occurred in the imperialist core. When a religion ceases to live as a material practice, even its spiritual dimension is called into question. The proof of Islam has always been its practical effectiveness and its ability to establish a functioning civilization.

Even among the sharpest political commentators of the Islamic world, one rarely encounters attention to class struggle. Most Muslims are its double victims. First, as peasants, proletarians, or as the lumpenproletarian masses of unemployed urban poor and displaced refugees, they suffer under the domination of the ruling classes within the Islamic world. Second, as part of the Global South, they remain subordinated to the caprices of the Global North. The comprador bourgeoisies of many Muslim-majority nation-states continue to serve the interests of the North’s imperialist bourgeoisie.

In earlier modes of production, a partial unity between the ruling and the ruled within the Islamic world could still exist under the umbrella of the ummah, where those in power least attempted to address the social needs of the poor. Today, this is no longer the case. In their pursuit of political power, rulers now overtly serve foreign interests.

It is therefore necessary to revisit those parts of the Qur’an that warn against envy toward the wealthy and are often read in ways that normalize social inequality. Clerics friendly to imperial subordination frequently invoke these verses – usually without malicious intent but out of anti-intellectualism – to justify capitalism. The Qur’an was revealed at a time when free trade among relative equals was still possible. Such trade enabled a form of competition that, while producing some social stratification, could still benefit society as a whole. Capitalist competition, however, is structurally deceitful. Mass inequality endures globally as the rich get richer and the poor get poorer under a dwindling American hegemony.

Capitalism legalizes the separation of workers’ interests from those of capitalists. By separating the means of production from the workers, it enables capitalists to pursue profit beyond the will of the majority. Second, at the international level, through unjust trade agreements and imperialist wars, it destroys the sovereignty of the peoples of the Global South.

For imperialism to succeed, it relies on the artificial division of Muslims into nation-states of its own making. These states then compete among themselves for the benefit of local elites, further dividing the Muslim masses.

Because of delayed industrialization and slower proletarianization (due to decades of imperialist destabilization and resource extraction), a considerable part of the Muslim world struggles to develop a coherent class consciousness. It has not aligned itself with imperialism at the global level. The lower strata of Muslim societies continue to inhabit a mental world shaped by the idea of relatively harmonious relations between rulers and the ruled. Moreover, they venerate the idol of the nation-state, which mainly serves the interests of national bourgeoisies. Even in religious matters, these bourgeoisies often align themselves with the interests of the Global North, subordinating religion to those interests.

In some countries, ruling class Muslims advocate European-style liberalization. Liberals in Turkey and the Balkans often express contempt for Islamic heritage and, in doing so, worsen the condition of the poor Muslim masses. They harbor racism toward darker-skinned Muslims, and, in a pattern that echoes colonial hierarchies, act as “house slaves,” leaving the role of “field slaves” to darker-skinned Muslims.

In other countries, the adaptation takes a more overtly reactionary form. There, they often despise secularist Muslims – such as those of the Balkans – while simultaneously idolizing the tribalist nation-state in direct contradiction to the universalist concept of the ummah, and worship profit as a golden calf. This profit flows mainly from oil sales to the capitalist center.

Reactionary states, which preach political passivity and contradictory consumerist hedonism, compensated by a charade of meaningless rules meant to soothe consciences – states that claim to be the refuge of faithful Islam – simultaneously persecute Muslim refugees and brutally exploit Muslim immigrant workers. This is, in short, the complete perversion of Islam.

Neither liberalism nor reactionary interpretations will solve the problems of the Islamic world. Only class consciousness can, and it can emerge only if we take the theoretical and rational insights of historical materialism seriously. Such consciousness drives the struggle against the ruling classes of Muslim countries that act against the interests of the ummah, and against tribal liberal or reactionary nationalisms that prevent the coordinated action of the ummah.

Into struggle together with the workers of the imperialist core: with Italian dockworkers who blockade arms shipments to Israel, with workers who can halt and paralyze European cities in response to genocide against Muslims, and with the workers of South America whose hearts beat in solidarity with the oppressed Muslims.

Only then can we begin to discuss how to secure a dignified life for Muslims and for all humanity, how to dismantle the empire itself, rather than remaining trapped in debates over atomized religious rules marked by false moral superiority and indifference to the cries of the oppressed.

The vast number of Muslims living in the Global South bears a responsibility to join the world’s struggle against capitalist imperialism. If this responsibility is recognized, it becomes possible to reclaim a role once held by Muslims in history, not through symbolism but through material struggle. The wretched of the world continue to wait for a response. Only then may we truly become an ummah in the genuine sense of the word—something that remains impossible under capitalism.

Muanis Sinanović is a Slovenian poet, writer, and critic.

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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/7001469

Hey comrades… sorry for going quiet these last days. I didn’t have the strength to write until now.

When I went to check on my girls at the station this week , I found Olivia very sick. She could barely stand. I begged the officers to let me take her to a clinic and after refusing at first, they finally agreed. The doctors said she has malaria and typhoid from the conditions inside. She’s still in the hospital getting treatment… she’s weak but in safer hands now.

After rushing her to the clinic, I went back to the station and tried talking calmly with the officer handling their case. It took time, but he showed a bit of mercy and that’s how we managed to get Kaira released too.

So right now Olivia is in the hospital, Kair is out but Charity is still in jail after four weeks. Seeing how sick Olivia got honestly terrified me. I don’t want Charity to end up the same way.

The officers are still asking for 213 USD to finish her bail before they transfer her to prison. I know I’ve asked many times here but this is all I can do to keep them safe.

If anyone can help or even just boost this, it truly means everything. Your solidarity is the only thing keeping us going. Life was really hard before I found this beautiful community .

Support link in my profile. Thank you for holding space for us 🙏🏻❤️